Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Arbuckle. Calif, an oil truck collided with a passenger car, burst into flames. The truck driver, pinned in his cab, roasted slowly to death while helpless onlookers sprayed water...
...first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school to pay for lessons, became the 15th U. S. woman to get a transport license. For her able 17,000-mi. solo flight around South...
...only studied out of fear of her. Old Dennis Fury said, "After all, he's only a boy," but Mrs. Fury could not forgive him, or stop loving and hating him. She sat up all night, staring vacantly at the shabby rooms, while her husband hovered nearby, helpless, pitying, irritated. In the depths of her anguish she tried to find release in work, scrubbed the crumbling house from top to bottom. She worked until her hands grew limp, until she almost fainted each time she leaned over the scrubbing bucket, until she dropped asleep like someone struck down...
...physical cause can usually be cured. Bad tonsils which make a girl nervous can be removed. If a child is a helpless, mute, untidy idiot because he is oxycephalic (cone-headed), nothing remedial can be done...
...honor. A great achievement was to enter an enemy camp and cut loose a picketed horse, the exploit counting for more than the material gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white...